About the role#
We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer Intern to join our engineering team. You will work on software reliability, automation, observability, and operational improvements. This role offers hands-on experience with enterprise-scale systems while you explore modern technologies and AI-powered development tools.
What you'll do#
- Improve system reliability, observability, monitoring, logging, and alerting across engineering services.
- Analyze application and system issues, troubleshoot failures, and identify root causes.
- Develop automation and tools to reduce manual operational effort and improve engineering efficiency.
- Support CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and operational workflows.
- Help identify reliability risks and implement improvements to system resilience and performance.
- Build dashboards, metrics, and health checks to improve visibility into system and application health.
- Support production issue investigation and participate in root-cause analysis.
- Explore and apply AI-powered development tools and AI agents to improve engineering and operational productivity.
- Work closely with developers, Cloud Operations, and other engineering teams to improve reliability and adoption of engineering solutions.
What you'll need#
- Pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- Familiarity with at least one programming language such as C#, Java, or Python.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Interest in SRE, cloud technologies, automation, observability, and distributed systems.
- Willingness to learn, investigate problems, and work collaboratively.
- Experience with Git, SQL, REST APIs, automated testing, or CI/CD is an asset.
- Hands-on experience using AI coding tools, AI development platforms, or building AI agents and applications using LLMs/APIs.
- Personal, academic, or previous internship software development experience.
- Exposure to cloud technologies and modern developer tools.
Location & details#
- Term: Winter 2027 (January 2027 to August 2027).
- Modality: Remote.
- Schedule: Full-time (37.5 to 40 hours weekly).
- Location: Based in Ontario, Canada.
About Dayforce
Dayforce is a global human capital management software company. It provides a platform for payroll, workforce management, and talent acquisition. The company supports payroll processing in over 200 countries. It serves a customer base that includes brands like Accenture and Barnes and Noble. The business began as Ceridian in 1992 and rebranded as Dayforce in 2024.
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